Wednesday, April 6, 2016

1:12 AM

Justice Rebecca Bradley and Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg saw similar drop offs in their vote totals compared to the top of the ticket.

But Bradley likely benefited from a GOP presidential primary that drew 100,000 voters more than the Dem race.

With about 98 percent of precincts in, the GOP presidential candidates had collected 1,073,048 votes, compared to 972,711 on the Dem side.

Meanwhile, Bradley had 990,840 votes, compared to 896,305 for Kloppenburg.

Bradley's vote total was 92.4 percent of the ballots cast in the GOP primary, while Kloppenburg's was 92.1 percent of the votes in the Dem race.

The overall turnout Tuesday also eclipsed the 2 million mark. The GAB had projected 1.75 million would turn out Tuesday, about 40 percent of the voting age population. Final numbers are not in yet. But Tuesday's turnout of at least 46.5 percent looks like the largest since 1972, when turnout was 47.7 percent, according to GAB numbers.